Next show:
A solo exhibition by the accomplished fine art photographer and painter Eric Klemm.
These remarkable new paintings by Eric Klemm -- precipitously born in the wake of a lifetime of making virtuoso photographs--are utterly exhilarating in the degree to which they sidle up teasingly close to formal rigidity and then, before any such damage can occur, subvert all expectations of any such programming. The new paintings trade in an exciting new compositional integrity, evinced by a decision to make square (almost square) paintings built upon a surprisingly innovative pairing of curved angles that answer and echo across Klemm’s immaculate picture planes. His bright, hard colour is a pauseless delight here as well, employed with such an authoritative expressiveness that a buoyant painting like his Yellow, Green and red Angle, for example, seems -- despite their evident constructivist kinship-- to bear little affinity to a stricter, less effervescent work like his strict Two Black Angles on White. All of these new Eric Klemms are like highly efficient engines: whatever the vitality he built into them, you get a hundred times that energy coming back to you.
Gary Michael Dault, former art critic of The Globe&Mail, Toronto, June 30, 2018
June 27 to July 22, opening June 30 2-5pm
These remarkable new paintings by Eric Klemm -- precipitously born in the wake of a lifetime of making virtuoso photographs--are utterly exhilarating in the degree to which they sidle up teasingly close to formal rigidity and then, before any such damage can occur, subvert all expectations of any such programming. The new paintings trade in an exciting new compositional integrity, evinced by a decision to make square (almost square) paintings built upon a surprisingly innovative pairing of curved angles that answer and echo across Klemm’s immaculate picture planes. His bright, hard colour is a pauseless delight here as well, employed with such an authoritative expressiveness that a buoyant painting like his Yellow, Green and red Angle, for example, seems -- despite their evident constructivist kinship-- to bear little affinity to a stricter, less effervescent work like his strict Two Black Angles on White. All of these new Eric Klemms are like highly efficient engines: whatever the vitality he built into them, you get a hundred times that energy coming back to you.
Gary Michael Dault, former art critic of The Globe&Mail, Toronto, June 30, 2018
June 27 to July 22, opening June 30 2-5pm
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2018
January 10-February 4 February 7-March 4 March 7-April 1 April 4-29 May 2-27 May 30-June 24 June 27-July 22 July 25-August 19 August 22-September 16 September 19-October 14 October 17-November 11 November 14-December 9 December 12-23 |
Show Dates
Group Show, Winter Solstice Group Show, "There is a crack in everything. That's how the lights gets in." Sarah Wright and Rachel Voth, TWU Honours Exhibition, Field Notes Kristin Krimmel, The Barn Project Susan J. Falk and Marilyn Dyer, Fusion Juried Show, Losing Home, Finding Hope Eric Klemm, Abstract Paintings Juried Photography Show, altered spaces: interventions in the landscape Alex Burton and Marguerite MacIntosh Don Portelance Edith Krause and Lisa Nickel Erica Grimm and Zuzana Vasko Group Show |